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She always knew how : Mae West, a personal biography / Charlotte Chandler.

by Chandler, Charlotte.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008048182-b.html

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008048182-d.html

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2008048182-s.html

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2008048182-t.html

xiii, 317 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

Biographer Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of interviews she conducted with the star just months before her death in 1980, as well as interviews with people who worked or lived with her. Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West created a scandal--and a sensation--on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Sentenced to ten days in prison for obscenity, she went in a convict and emerged a star. Her next play, Diamond Lil, was a smash, and she would play variations on Diamond Lil for virtually her entire career. In 1930s Hollywood she saved Paramount Studios from bankruptcy. Her screenplays included some notorious one-liners that have become part of Hollywood lore, but behind the clever quips was Mae's deep desire to see women treated equally with men. She fought the double standard of the time that permitted men things that women would be ruined for doing.--From publisher description.

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